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Turkiye hosts Largest Solar Power Plant of any European Country, as its Solar Installations Surge to 3.1 GW in H1
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Turkiye hosts Largest Solar Power Plant of any European Country, as its Solar Installations Surge to 3.1 GW in H1

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkiye [Turkey] is a European country, since part of its territory lies in Europe. So the following sentence is true: […]

Palestinian Statehood is winning major new Supporters at UN – but symbolic Action won’t make it happen

Palestinian Statehood is winning major new Supporters at UN – but symbolic Action won’t make it happen

09/20/2025 By The Conversation

Protesting UC Berkeley handing Names of Faculty and Students  to Dept. of Education

Protesting UC Berkeley handing Names of Faculty and Students to Dept. of Education

09/20/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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Why Conservatives fear Pope's Climate Letter:  A Radical Attack on the Logic of the Market

Why Conservatives fear Pope’s Climate Letter: A Radical Attack on the Logic of the Market

Steffen Böhm | (The Conversation) | – – What makes Pope Francis and his 187-page encyclical so radical isn’t just his call to urgently tackle […]

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BDS Occupied Territories
French Telco CEO Receives Death Threats, is Cyberstalked over Withdrawal from Israel

French Telco CEO Receives Death Threats, is Cyberstalked over Withdrawal from Israel

By IMEMC | – – Orange boss Stephane Richard has taken legal action after receiving death threats against himself and family members amid a row […]

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Climate Change
Can Big Coal, Oil be Put on Trial for Global Warming Damage by Victims?

Can Big Coal, Oil be Put on Trial for Global Warming Damage by Victims?

By Thalif Deen | – – UNITED NATIONS, Jun 16 2015 (IPS) – The United Nations, which is tasked with the protection of the global […]

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Europe
Juan Cole & Jocylene Cesari:  "Europe's Muslims after Charlie Hebdo: Challenges and Misconceptions"

Juan Cole & Jocylene Cesari: “Europe’s Muslims after Charlie Hebdo: Challenges and Misconceptions”

David Speedie, Juan Cole & Jocylene Cesari | Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (Video) | – – “Months after the “Charlie Hebdo” attacks, […]

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Arab Americans
Can the GOP live down Donald Trump's Middle East "Policy"?

Can the GOP live down Donald Trump’s Middle East “Policy”?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Comedians, bloggers, and pundits are ecstatic about The Donald throwing his toupee in the ring for […]

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Acidification of Oceans
Climate Denial as a Corporate Criminal Conspiracy

Climate Denial as a Corporate Criminal Conspiracy

By Naomi Oreskes | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – Recently, the Washington Post reported new data showing something most of us already sense: that increased polarization on Capitol Hill […]

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Apartheid
Israel's Ultranationalist Squatters March in Jerusalem, beat Palestinian Journalist

Israel’s Ultranationalist Squatters March in Jerusalem, beat Palestinian Journalist

Channel 4 News | (Video Documentary) | – – “Bussed in from nearby settlements, Israel’s ultranationalist right were defiant at a rally for Jerusalem day […]

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Climate Change
Europe to reach 20% Renewable Energy Goal by 2020 & You'll Never Guess How

Europe to reach 20% Renewable Energy Goal by 2020 & You’ll Never Guess How

Euractiv | – – [ N.B. 13% of US electricity is from renewables, including hydro; almost no transportation is powered by renewables.] While most EU […]

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Arab World
Women's Voices Matter, especially in the Middle East

Women’s Voices Matter, especially in the Middle East

By Lauren Feeney | (Informed Comment) – – Before there were nine million Syrian refugees, civil wars in Yemen and Libya, mass death sentences being […]

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